Witnesses Out Of The Bottomless Pit

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WITNESSES

OUT OF THE

BOTTOMLESS PIT

THE GREAT ANTI-RELIGION
ANTI-CHRISTIAN, ANTI-CHURCH,
ANTI-CLERGY, ANTI-BRITISH, Etc.

RUSSELL AND RUTHERFORD

JEHOVAH WITNESSES

INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS

THE SELF PROCLAIMED WITNESSES

OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT

(See Page 16)

AN EXPOSURE

By GEORGE S. LLOYD

Sometime Chaplain to Metropolitan Prisons
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Copyright

FOREWORD

Rev. Robert Dey, D.D.,

Editor "Australian Christian World," Sydney.

Most people in Australia have become used to
hawkers of books of the type of "The Millenial Dawn"
and other publications of "Russellism" or "Ruther-
fordism," and many suburban housewives can tell
stories of their persistent dogmatism. But it is not
easy to gain either from the books or from the sales-
men any clear notion of the tenets of this curious
faith. Mr. Lloyd has therefore done a useful piece of
work in describing the theological and financial vagaries
manifested by Pastor Russell and his disciple (or should
we say, heir?) "Judge Rutherford." Mr. Lloyd has
had patience to read these most unattractive and
incoherent productions, and has gathered a mass of
surprising information — information that will be very
useful to any who are called on to deal with the agents
of this strange American "religion." He shows
that "Russellism" — or "Rutherfordism" as he pre-
fers to call it — has no theology, no religion and no
programme that could appeal to any normal human
being. I have much pleasure in commending this
booklet to all who are in need of information.

—ROBERT DEY, D.D.

INTRODUCTION

Rev. J. E. Warren

Secretary Victoria and Tasmania Methodist
Conference

The Rev. Geo. S. Lloyd is a minister of the
Methodist Church of Victoria and Tasmania. For ten
years he filled with encouraging results the office of
gaol chaplain (Metropolitan Prisons, Melbourne). The
following investigation of what Mr. Lloyd calls
"Rutherfordism" which, in principle, is the same as
Millenial Dawnism, deserves wide publicity. Christian
people are in danger; they purchase and read these
amazing publications before they realise what they
are. Of all the weird religious sects from what the
late Dr. Agar Beet called that "fertile hotbed of
ecclesiastical curiosities," America, there is none, in
our judgment, more open to criticism than "Ruther-
fordism." It is time that Christian people knew what
it professed to be. If "Rutherfordism" is the truth,
then many of the things sacred to Christians, such as
those mentioned in Mr. Lloyd's booklet, must lose their
value forever. The spirit in which curious doctrines
and unconvincing interpretations of Scripture are
advocated by this sect is altogether discordant with
that of New Testament Christianity. We have not
so learnt Christ. Judge Rutherford, with his use of
the term Jehovah to designate the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, is returning to the less developed
religious consciousness of the Old Testament; and the
Christian believer knows, or ought to know, that that
way is not the way of salvation. "There is a way that
seemeth right unto man, but the ends thereof are the
ways of death."

PREFACE

The city of Melbourne, during last Easter (1933),
was subjected to an unusual religious campaign by a
skilfully organised army of "Jehovah Witnesses or
Rutherfordites." The attack was termed a "Vindica-
tion Drive," in which two hundred "witnesses" took
part, and 16,000 copies of their books and literature
were disposed of. Easter Sunday was a day of special
offensive upon the Church people in thirteen suburbs.

The campaigners were under a "Group Captain,"
and classified as "Pioneers," "Auxiliaries" and "Sharp
Shooters." Their methods were those of "high pres-
sure salesmen." Their methods were also both
questionable and misleading. They represented them-
selves not as agents for Russell and Rutherford, but
as "Bible Students" or "Bible Society Members," and
so by subterfuge gained the interest of the Church
people, and foisted on them their strange doctrines.

These canvassers are not only active in our cities,
but carry on their pernicious and persistent anti-
Christian propaganda in the more remote parts of the
Commonwealth. Full use is also made of the radio.
In fact it is all a part of a world-wide attack upon
organised Christianity.

It is due our Christian people that they be well
informed re this specious and dangerous new religion
— a religion spoken of by an eminent minister as "a
rank heresy, a counterfeit Christianity parading in the
livery of heaven, while propagating the lies of hell."

This contribution does not aim at an expository or
theological criticism of the movement, but attacks it
from another angle, the objective being in a plain and
direct fashion to expose and lay bare "Rutherfordism,"
and its "aliases" as the arch-enemy of Christianity.

WITNESSES OUT OF THE
BOTTOMLESS PIT

RUTHERFORDISM— AN ALIAS RELIGION

Its designations are manifold — Millenial Dawnism,
Russellism, Adventism. The Watch Tower Bible and
Tract Society (Am.), International Bible Students'
Association (London), the Metropolitan Pulpit, the
Remnant, Jehovah Witness, "Rutherfordism."

Its many aliases make it suspect. When official
chaplain to one of the largest prisons in Australia, I
was in close personal touch with men of many aliases,
and almost without a single exception they were im-
posters; and this religion with its many aliases can
be written down as the biggest religious imposition of
modern times.

In this pamphlet I prefer to use the designation
"Rutherfordism." "The Jehovah Witnesses" object to
be called "Russellites." As Judge Rutherford is now
their "prophet" and "apostle," the term should not be
offensive. It is certainly more up-to-date, moreover
Judge Rutherford's name is known the world over
because of the intensive propaganda by his followers.

RUTHERFORDISM— THE GREAT ANTI-RELIGION

It is anti-Christ, anti-Church, anti-Clergy, anti-
Sabbath, anti-British, anti-Prohibition, anti-League of
Nations, anti-everything that organised Christianity
stands for.

The "New York Times" referring to the "Jehovah
Witness" Convention, Ohio, 1928, wrote of "Judge
Rutherford as the most uncompromising foe of
organised Christianity."

THIS ANTI-RELIGION, WHENCE CAME IT?

It owes its origin to Charles Taze Russell, a self-
appointed pastor. His strange doctrines were set forth
in "Millenial Dawn," a publication whose pernicious
teachings came under such destructive criticism that
it was re-issued under the more specious title: "Studies
in the Scripture." Russell claimed to be a true suc-
cessor of Tyndale, and to give the people a new Bible
which really out-values the authorised version of the
Scriptures. Rutherford re-affirms this audacious claim.
In "Creation," p. 170, he writes: "William Tyndale was
used to bring the Bible to the attention of the people,
so the Lord used Charles T. Russell to bring to the
attention of the people an understanding of the Bible."
The comparison is presumptuous.

Tyndale was a distinguished Hebrew and Greek
scholar. His translation of the Scriptures into the
English language was one of the greatest gifts to the
English speaking people.

Russell was without education and confessed when
on trial before the "Grand Jury" that he could neither
read nor translate a single verse of the Greek New
Testament.

Of this self-appointed pastor, Russell, we learn
that he was in the shirt business, Alleghany (Am.),
having inherited the same from his father. He lectured
on religious subjects and became known as the "Crank
Preacher," declaring himself a prophet of the Elijah
order. He claimed to be a first favourite with
"Jehovah" and to possess the key with which to unlock
the mysteries of the Old Testament, the Book of
Revelation, and the hidden things of the "Pyramid,"
the Great Stone Bible.

His personal character neither confirmed nor sup-
ported his professed high calling as the Elect of the
Jehovah.

In 1879, he married Miss Ackley, said to be a godly
woman. In 1908 she divorced him, and the Court
ordered him to make her an allowance of £20 per month.
His wife obtained her decree on the grounds of his
ill-treatment of her, and his improper relations with
other women.

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The Rev. J. Ross, of Hamilton, Ontario, attacked
both Russell and his false teaching. The pastor
brought an action against him, claiming 100,000 dollars
damages. He lost the case and had to pay the costs.
Before the Grand Jury he cut a sorry figure and was
proved to be a deliberate liar.

His "Miracle Wheat" stunt was a crafty fraud; his
60-dollar wheat giving no better results per bushel
than the two-dollar wheat.

He was a clever financier. He sold out his Chain
Shirt Selling Shops and went into the Religious Book
Business, and by big boosting made a mint of money.
"He was a reputed millionaire but so cleverly did he
manipulate finance that not one cent could be found
in his name. His business methods were full of sus-
picion. He held 47,000 out of the 50,000 shares in the
company through which the moneys of Russellism were
invested." The Rev. Park, of Belfast, remarks: "His
business career was as shady as his domestic record."

ENTER JUDGE RUTHERFORD

With the death of Russell in 1916, the "Elijah"
day closed and (Elisha) Rutherford appears on the
scene. He was Russell's preferential nominee to the
Editorship of the "Zions Watch Tower Publications."
Of himself he writes ("Light"*) : "It was clearly seen
that Elisha (himself) was anointed in the stead of
Elijah (Russell) to finish the work of witnessing in
the name of Jehovah." He has exploited his predeces-
sor's writings to the fullest extent, adroitly camouflag-
ing their inaccuracies and adding new revelations of
his own. He claims to have a better understanding of
the Divine Mind, plan and purpose, than any other man
since the days of the Great Apostle, St. Paul.

J. F. Rutherford is a lawyer apparently qualified
to designate himself "Judge." It should, however, be
remembered that Judgeship in America does not carry
the same worth and importance as in England or
Australia.

Regarding his character, we certainly think his
moral values are questionable. His funeral oration on

•Words printed thus ("Creation") indicate the titles of Book from which
the extracts following are quoted.

the death of Pastor Russell was a grandiloquent out-
burst in which he set forth the pastor as little less than
an arch-angel. He declared him "the greatest man
that has lived since the apostle Paul. That his
character was without blemish. That he was the
cleanest and purest and best of men."

To pronounce this man, Russell, who was unfaith-
ful to his wife, a proved liar, a fraud in wheat dealing,
of shady business transactions, "as the purest, cleanest
and best of men," is either sheer hypocrisy or the
inane vapourings of a mind that is morally befogged.
Further, we challenge Rutherford's sex ideals. Because
Mrs. Russell, forced by her husband's behaviour, had
to seek escape through the divorce court, Rutherford
was cowardly and mean minded enough to compare
her to the wicked Jezebel, and to speak of other women
who withdrew from Russellism in the most offensive
terms. This, with the nauseating repetition of coarse
sex phrases, may be regarded as an unconscious self-
revelation, a making bare of a mind lacking in high
ideals of womanhood. They are certainly neither the
thoughts nor expressions of a Christian gentleman.

THE ANTI-RELIGION— ITS OBJECTIVE

I have no hesitation in saying that its primary-
objective is a deliberate, vindictive attack upon organ-
ised Christianity, the Churches, the clergy and religious
activities; an attack that is insolent, lying and blas-
phemous.

BOOK PROFITS ESTIMATED AT £90,000 FOR
YEAR, 1922

Further, we strongly suspect that the "almighty
dollar" has a big place in the intensive world-wide
campaign. In ten years 130 millions of Rutherford's
publications were distributed. In 1922 more than 22
millions; these on the basis of a profit of one penny
per copy represent a total profit of £90,000 for this one
year. Despite Rutherford's "Smoke Screen" statement
that the "Copyright" of the books is not his, but the
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society's, it would be
interesting to know how much of this huge profit finds
its way indirectly into his banking account.

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The Witnesses make no claim to establish Churches
or religious societies ("Creation"*) : "Their purpose
is to enlighten men concerning the Divine Plan." "The
publication of books and magazines dealing with the
Divine Plan is a means of giving witness." ("Govern-
ment"*) : "They print and publish books, and go from
house to house, and place their books in the hands of
the people at a minimum cost." ("Creation"*) : "It
has never been their purpose to induce anyone to join
them; in fact they have no membership roll."

The important qualification is that they should be
expert booksellers. Instead of being named "Bible
Students" or "Jehovah Witnesses," they can be more
properly called "Rutherford's Book Pedlars."

Some of the Witnesses no doubt are sincere, and
earnest people who are unconscious of the fact that
they are being used as tools.

There is a subtly planned scheme to wreck the
Christian Church, and no adequate substitute is offered
in its place.

RUTHERFORDISM ANTI-CHRIST
Christ Dishonoured and Degraded

It should be noted that among the many designa-
tions of this new Cult, the name "Christians" is
discarded and "Jehovah Witnesses" substituted. There
is a very marked attempt to relegate the name "Jesus"
to quite an inferior position. The New Testament
"God, the Heavenly Father," as revealed by His Son
Jesus Christ, has scant recognition, but the ideas of a
God harsh and fierce, to be feared rather than adored
and loved, are presented.

From ("Life"*) we read: "For long centuries the
name Jehovah God has been defamed and profaned
among the people." ("Reconciliation"*) : "It is notable
that in the Church systems, the name 'Jesus' has been
made more prominent than 'Jehovah God.' " "The
whole system and purpose of the master mind (Satan)
behind organised Christianity is to minimise the name
Jehovah." "Satan has used some of his agents; the
clergy to exalt the name of Jesus above that of
Jehovah." Rutherford professes to redeem the posi-
tion and asserts that: "Both His (Jehovah's) name and
word, are now being exalted by His own organisation."
(The Jehovah Witnesses or Rutherfordites.)

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A gross misrepresentation of Scripture and Church
history, as proved by a reference to "The Apostle's
Creed" and the "Gloria," and completely refuted by
Jesus Christ Himself, and by the Apostles of the early
Church.

"That all men should honour the Son even as they
honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son
honoureth not the Father which hath sent Him." — John
5: 23.

"Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name."

"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth."

"And that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

—Phil. 2: 9, 10, 11.

THE PERSONALITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR
DISHONOURED AND DISCREDITED

We are asked to believe that in the beginning God
had two Sons, one named Lucifer and the other Logos,
afterwards Jesus. ("Prophecy"*) : "Jehovah delegated
to his son Lucifer the authority to be the overseer of
man. Lucifer became disloyal and rebelled against
God, and since that time has been known as Satan
the Devil."

("Deliverance,"* Preface): "The names of the
three great beings herein made conspicuous are:
Jehovah the Father, and Logos and Lucifer his sons."

("Reparation"*) : "Jesus Christ was one of the
two morning stars that sang together at the dawn of
Creation. Lucifer was the other." ("Light"*) : "The
Holy Scriptures show that the term "morning stars"
refer to the two mighty beings in heaven, Michael the
Logos, and Lucifer who proved to be disloyal. The
Logos remained faithful and true."

The Holy Scriptures do not show that Jesus was
Michael, or one of the morning stars, or that Lucifer,
afterwards Satan, was co-equal with Him. It is rank
heresy to even suggest it. Jesus was not a created
being. The Scripture declares Him to be co-equal and
co-eternal with God the Father. (John 1:1): "In the

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beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God
and the Word was God" (not Michael the arch-angel).

Jesus Himself said: "I and the Father (not
Michael) are One." "He that hath seen Me, hath seen
the Father" (not an archangel).

St. Paul bears His testimony (Rom. 9:5): "Christ
came Who is over all, God, blessed forever." Phil. 2:
6, 9, 10, 11 : "Who being in the form of God, thought
it not robbery to be equal with God." "Wherefore God
has also highly exalted Him, and given Him a name
above every name." "That at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, and that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father."

We indignantly repudiate Rutherford's discrediting
of the Son of God, the Incarnate Saviour, and reverently
take our place with Thomas the Disciple and say: "My
Lord and my God."

THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS
CHRIST

We read in ("Book Government"*) : "If Adam and
his off -spring are to profit by the death of the perfect
man Jesus, then Jesus as a man must remain dead for-
ever." "He did not appear in the body that was
crucified, somewhere Jehovah miraculously preserved
that body."

("Reconciliation"*) : "The man Jesus must remain
dead forever, if he is to be a substitute for Adam."
"The body of Jesus, God did not permit to corrupt, but
otherwise disposed of it."

("Millenial Dawn"*): "Our Lord's human body
was, however, supernaturally removed from the tomb,
whether it was dissolved into gas, or whether it is
preserved by God, as the Grand Memorial of God's
love of Christ's obedience, and of our redemption, we
know not."

The empty tomb is Russell's and Rutherford's
problem. They do not know what to do with the Sacred
Body of our Lord. Rather than accept the simple New
Testament facts, that the Christ Who rose again, was
the Christ Who was crucified, dead and buried, they
invent theories that are both false and revolting, viz. :

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"That the body was miraculously preserved"; that it
did not see corruption, but was otherwise disposed of" ;
that it is preserved as a Grand Memorial," to be
brought forth on some great occasion predicted by
Rutherford, a sort of holy relic, a sacred memorial, or
glorified mummy.

Rev. D. Ml Panton, M.A., writes: "The so-called
Jesus Christ presented by 'Millenial Dawn' is, I believe,
as remarkable a caricature of our Lord as was ever
produced. Simply stated it is this, Jesus was first
created an archangel, then a man, then a god; and
between these stages yawns an annihilating gulf, so
that the archangel ceases to be when the man appeared,
and both archangel and man disappeared when He
became a god."

RUTHERFORDISM DENIES THE DIVINE PERSON-
ALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND RIDICULES
THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY TRINITY

The Holy Spirit is set forth as simply "the power,"
or "wisdom," or "influence" of God. The personality
and divinity of the Holy Spirit are denied. ("Reconcili-
ation"*) : "The Holy Spirit (mistranslated Holy Ghost)
is not a person or being, and no Scripture authorises
such a conclusion."

Rutherfordism flatly contradicts the teaching of
our Lord Jesus Christ as recorded in St. John's Gospel
(C. 14, v. 16) : "I will pray the Father and He shall
give you another Comforter, that He may abide with
you forever." (John 15: 26): "But when the Com-
forter is come whom I will send from the Father, even
the Spirit of Truth which proceedeth from the Father,
He shall testify of Me."

The word translated "Comforter" may be more
correctly rendered "Paraclete," or "Advocate" — the
meaning being "a person called to the side of another,"
or "one called in to give whatever help may be re-
quired." Personality is most emphatically implied.

St. Paul also bears his testimony. (Rom. 8: 16) :
"The Spirit itself (R.V. Himself) beareth witness
with our spirit that we are the children of God." This
implies that the Spirit of God and the spirit of man
are of the same nature; if we possess personality, so
must the Holy Spirit.

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Thus again we expose Rutherfordism as falsifying
and mis-representing the teaching of Christ and the
apostles.

RUTHERFORDISM ANTI-CHURCH

An irrational attack is made upon organised
Christianity in the spirit and with coarse vulgar speech
of the Church hating and anti-god communist. We
quote the following extracts:

("Light"*) : "Organised Christianity is the devil's
substitute for God." "Christendom has the mark of
the beast and is smitten with grievous sores. It has
the botch of Egypt" and feels "very itchy." "Eve sold
herself to the devil and became a harlot. Christendom
sold itself to the devil, therefore the words, Thou hast
a whore's head." "Christianity bears the old woman's
name. The old wench has spread herself out over the
world."

("Prophecy"*) : "The Church is modern Assyria,
and is full of lies and robbery." "The Church, both
Catholic and Protestant, are prison houses, the chief
keeper or warder is Satan."

("Government"*) : "Their (the clergys') organisa-
tion has become the habitation of every evil spirit, the
cage of every unclean bird."

("Deliverance"*) : "The ecclesiastical wing of
Satan's visible organisation has a world membership
made up as follows: Roman Catholics, 273,000,000;
Orthodox Catholics, 121,801,000; Protestants, 179,
900,000."

Dozens of such slanderous and vilifying extracts
might be cited, but enough have been quoted to expose
Rutherfordism as viciously anti-Church and to make
bare its hate and falsity. Organised Christianity,
to-day, needs no apology. It is the greatest moral
factor in social and national life, demanding the highest
character in citizenship, the holiest in the home, and
the purest in the individual. To-day, God is in a
singular manner honouring Christianity with the Power
of the Holy Spirit, and men's lives are being changed
the world over. To designate it of the devil is lying
and blasphemous misrepresentation.

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RUTHERFORDISM— ANTI-CLERGY

Rutherford sets out (to use some of his own terms)
to give the clergy a "drubbing," a "trimming," and
as one of the "locusts of the bottomless pit," "a hot,
stinging, 'itching' time of it." His language is vicious
and bitter, with a flavour of brimstone and fire about
it. We quote from some of his books:

("Light"*) : "The billy goat clergy and the prin-
cipal ones of their flock are the guilty ones. Because
they poured out the blood of the saints, thou gavest
them blood to eat and they deserved it." "They are
hypocritical agents of Satan. Big windjammers called
preachers." "Serpents and vipers." "The devilish
religious practitioners, voodoo medicine men."

("Deliverance"*) : "The clergy are one of the un-
clean frogs; a frog has a big mouth, assumes wisdom,
swells up and makes much noise."

("Creation"*) : "They provide the sanctimonious
smoke screen which their father (the devil) employs
to blind the people to the truth." "Paid agents of the
Devil."

("War and Peace"*): "Both Catholic and Pro-
testant preachers are under the influence of Satan."

("Heaven"*): "There are 150,000 clergy in the
U.S. America, not a single one of whom is teaching
the people of, and, concerning God's Kingdom."

These are a few of the many choice terms used by
this so-called holy man. We are to believe that the
only preacher in the religious world to-day, who is
not "a hypocrite," "a liar," "a voodoo medicine man,"
"tool of Satan," "a windjammer," "a billy goat," "an
unclean frog," is Judge Rutherford himself.

Comment is superfluous, unless it is to suggest
that either Jehovah or Rutherford has made a gigantic
mistake.

Rutherford speaks of the clergy hood-winking the
people. I venture to think that he himself has been
hoodwinked by the devil. Let me say from personal
knowledge that the Clergy can take their place with
the most honoured of our citizens, both as regards
their character and influence. Moreover, as Chaplain
for ten years to the metropolitan prisons (Pentridge
included), Melbourne, I had no knowledge of a single
clergyman being imprisoned, but can say that 90 per

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cent, of the inmates of our goals are one with Ruther-
ford in his antagonism to the Churches and bitter
opposition to the clergy. The Judge is certainly in
undesirable company.

RUTHERFORDITES, THE SELF-PROCLAIMED
"WITNESSES OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT"

In the Book of Revelation, Chapter 9, reference is
made to the fallen star, the bottomless pit, and the
locusts which issue out of the smoke of the pit. These
locusts were like war horses going into battle, with
human faces, hair like women, teeth like lions, and
breastplates like steel. They had tails like scorpions,
and stings in their tails. Their mission was not to
kill, but to cause awful agony for five months to those
who have not the seal of God on their foreheads. They
were under a king called Abaddon or Apollyon (the
destroyer).

Russell's comments ("Light"*) : "Undoubtedly the
Star is Jesus Christ, also, the titles Abaddon and
Apollyon (the destroyer) are applied to Him."

Such statements are arrived at by a clever manipu-
lation of Scripture passages, but are nevertheless gross
perversion of the truth, and savor of blasphemy.

No amount of word juggling can alter the fact
that the "Star" of the first verse is a "fallen star.
Whoever it represents it is "undoubtedly (not)
Jesus Christ." The best Biblical scholarship is against
Rutherford.

The emblem of the "fallen star" is used by Isaiah
when he speaks of Lucifer fallen from heaven. Jesus
Christ describes Satan as lightning falling from heaven.
It is claimed that the "Locusts" issuing out of
the smoke of the bottomless pit are the Rutherfordites
and Jehovah Witnesses. ("Light"*) : "The description
of the "locusts" show that they form a part of God s
army, the fighting organisation. The sound of their
wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses
running to battle." "When the remnant (Witnesses)
are in action they make a sounding noise that frightens
the enemy. By the use of the radio, and the millions
of books they make a great noise, so it is thought by
whom they frighten. One real Christian (Witness) can
put to flight a thousand ecclesiastical frauds."

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"The Lord's army is commanded not to kill, there-
fore the torment must continue. The members of
Satan's organisation (organised Christianity) must
take their medicine as God decreed. They tried for a
time to be dead (indifferent) to the strong truth
brought by the army of locusts, and they began to
howl because of their torment."

One of the very coarse cartoons pictures the
"locusts" at their work. In large numbers issuing from
the smoke of the pit they are represented as giving
organised Christianity, especially the clergy, a "hot
stinging 'itchy' time of it."

We are quite prepared to concede the claim of
Rutherford, that he and his followers are the "locusts"
out of the bottomless pit.

Any intelligent reader of his weird and heretical
writings will not dispute his claim.

SCRIPTURE EXEGESIS EXTRAORDINARY

("Government"*) In this book some study is given
to Samson and his place in the Kingdom of God. Page
261. The name Samson means "brilliant light," or
"sunlight" that which reflects light. The name Sam-
son therefore would foreshadow the light giving class,
or consecrated ones. The hair is the covering for the
head and grows out of the head. The facts show that
the strength of Samson was in his hair. The strength
of the Christian comes from and through his Head,
Jesus Christ."

"The year, 1897," was a destiny year. "A human
skeleton is made up of 206 bones. Zionism was organ-
ised into a body at Basel, Switzerland, in 1897, and at
that Congress, which perfected the organisation, there
were exactly 206 delegates, the same number of bones
in the human body. This in fulfilment of Ezekiel's
prophecy: "So I prophesied as I was commanded, as
I prophesied there was a noise and behold a shaking,
and the bones came together bone to his bone."

We have knowledge of a "Bare Bones Parliament,"
but this is the first time we have heard of a "Dry
Bones Congress."

("Deliverance"*) — Referring to the devil's organi-
sation we read : "They all call themselves by the name

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of Christian, but as the prophet truly says, 'each one
eats his own bread and wears his own apparel,' mean-
ing that he follows his own doctrine and clothes himself
in his own salvation garments." Isaiah 4:1: "In that
day seven women (symbolic of all ecclesiastism the so-
called Christian systems, always pictured by a woman)
shall take hold of one man (the name Jesus Christ,
saying hypocritally) : We will eat our own bread and
wear our own apparel only let us be called by Thy
Name, to take away our reproach."

The foregoing are a few of many like extracts.

Dr. Ballard rightly designates such Scripture ex-
position as so much "pious piffle."

RUTHERFORD— ANTI-SABBATH AND ANTI-LAW

The "Jehovah Witnesses" in propaganda drives
have no respect for either week day or Sunday trading
laws. Their canvassers have been convicted before
Australian Courts for violation of Trading Laws, and
also in a number of the American States.

On May 7, 1918, all the officers of the Watch
Tower Bible and Tract Society (Rutherfordites) who
were then the publishers of "The Watch Tower," were
arrested under warrant, charging them with violation
of the espionage law and trading with the enemy. The
charges were sustained and they were committed to
prison. On March 26, 1919, they were released.

Rutherford informs us that on their release the
"Hallelujah Chorus" was sung in heaven.

The clergy are charged (though wrongly) as being
the instigators of these prosecutions. Hence the anta-
gonism, and bitter invective against them.

RUTHERFORDISM— ANTI-PROHIBITION

It is illuminating to learn what this present-day
"Elisha" has to say about the great social reform
movement, "Prohibition."

("Light"*), 1924: "It was in this year that the
mask was taken off Prohibition, and it was exhibited
as a scheme of the Devil." ("Prohibition. Is it of God
or the Devil?"): "Prohibition is Christianity's great
instrument of hypocrisy." "I have no hesitation in

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saying that Prohibition is a scheme of the Devil."
"Those who participate in making and enforcing the
Prohibition law are guilty of presumptuous sin before
God." "I am certain back of the whole scheme of
Prohibition is the master mind of Satan."

This really is unexpected information. My know-
ledge is that back of the movement are the great
Christian Churches of America, and that grand body
of women, the Women's Christian Temperance Union
of America, under the leadership of the saintly Frances
Willard.

Rutherford tells us that Prohibition is of the devil,
so then we are to believe that God is back of the booze
and boot-legging business.

We charge Rutherfordism with being in league
with the American "Wets." Some of the coarse car-
toons in which the clergy are offensively portrayed as
co-operating with the "Rum Runners," "Dope Sellers"
and "Bootleggers" are loaned the Watch Tower Pub-
lishing Co., by the "North American," one of the wet-
test of the American papers.

RUTHERFORDISM— ANTI-BRITISH

In relation to the British people there are some
surprise passages. Here are a few of many:

("Government"*) : "Daniel gave an outline of the
world power to wit, Babylon, including the British
Empire."

("Crisis"*) : "America and Britain are the leading
nations in the realm of Christendom. There has been
more hypocrisy practised and more blood shed un-
righteously in these two nations than in any other
under the sun." A glaring mis-statement disproved
by history.

("Prophecy"*) : "Then came the British Empire as
a mighty power. This Empire must of necessity be of
Satan's organisation."

("Light"*) : "British diplomacy is the last word
of deception, America has tried to copy it." . . .
"Jehovah will destroy these nations." "The two horned
beast with two horns is Anglo-Britain, for a time part
of the sea beast, but growing up out of the devil's
organ, the two horned beast became a favoured instru-
ment of Satan's." "The London convention, May,

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1926, Rutherford the self-appointed 'Angel of the
Church' pours out the fifth vial upon the Beast (Rev.
16: 10)." "The Beast is Britain, the pouring of the
bowl was upon the seat of the Beast, London; the
effect was to cause the prominent factors (leaders and
clergy) of the beastly organisation to knaw their
tongues in pain." "The British Empire is the devil's
seat, especially equipped to carry out his designs."

Somehow we have had the conviction that Jehovah
has a special design and mission for the British; history
seems to point in that direction. To say that a people
who among other great benefactions gave to the world
the British and Foreign Bible and Tract Society, mak-
ing possible the distribution of God's Word in 600
different languages, is an "instrument of the devil," is
sheer lunacy.

THE BRITISH PREMIER, HON. RAMSAY MAC-
DONALD, AN EXCEEDING GREAT BULLFROG

("Light"*) 1929, A.D.: "At the New York Ban-
quet, speeches were delivered by the Premier of the
British Empire in the presence of the Chief Advocates
of the League of Nations. The Premier said: 'Our
two flags whenever the work of God is to be done in
the world, will be found flying together in the doing
of that work. War between the two nations is
unthinkable.' "

Rutherford remarks: "The speaker was no doubt
sincere, but his words are not true. They are bom-
bastic and sound like an exceeding great bullfrog. God
is not using and will not use at any time or place the
high officials of Great Britain or America to do his
work."

Of course not, not while Judge Rutherford is on
the job. The rebuff by the British people during his
campaign seems to have deeply hurt the feelings of this
sanctimonious egotist.

The reputable British press refused his boosting
and braggadocio advertisements and castigated him
severely. The British were not to be duped by this
American religious charlatan nor his insolent fulmina-
tions.

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RUTHERFORD ANTI-LEAGUE OF NATIONS

The very name League of Nations seems anathema
to this new prophet. Give attention to what he has
to say:

("Light"*) : "The League of Nations is the make-
shift of the devil." "The author and father of the
League of Nations is Satan the devil." "The League
of Nations part of the devil's organisation." "The
image of the Beast is the League of Nations." "The
clergy voters for the League of Nations are most
reprehensible." "It is an unholy alliance, the scarlet
coloured Beast."

To those who know the constitution of the League,
its truly Christian objective, its sane influence upon
international affairs, and its effective dealings with the
dope and white slave traffic, Rutherford's statements
are gross misrepresentations. .

JUDGE RUTHERFORD JUDGED

Dr. Haldeman (Am.) declares: "This new cult
from beginning to end is one of the most terrific perils
that ever came forth in the name of Christ. It is
the peril of audacious and concealed poison. It is the
counterfeit of perverted truth and downright false-
hood."

Dr. Torrey: "When any man makes such a
claim (Russell's), it is unnecessary to read, or listen,
to anything more that he has to say. By such state-
ments he proves himself to be beyond question a char-
latan and religious impostor."

An American Doctor of Divinity declares: "This
new religion as perverted and downright blasphemy!"

Rev. R. Park, B.A. (Belfast) : "It is about the most
foolish and flimsy brand of religion ever offered to a
gullible public."

Rev. Robertson (Eng.) : "It uses time honoured
phrases to deceive the unwary, and by a lavish use of
pious platitudes seeks to entrap the simple."

A close study will show that the Scriptures are
emptied of their real meaning, and subtle, and insidious
explanations given which are calculated to undermine
faith in the fundamentals of the Gospel.

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The Rev. Frank Ballard, M.A., D.D., writes of "the
bewildering mixture of twisted quotations, childish
interpretations and pitiful misrepresentations. It is
groteseque in its childishness, and blasphemous in
its implication, utterly false and misleading."

Professor W. G. Moorhead: "The book is essenti-
ally anti-scriptural, and a wretched perversion of the
Gospel of Christ. Perhaps among the English speaking
world, there is not another book which contains so
many errors as 'Millenial Dawn.' May God in His
infinite mercy preserve His people from being poisoned
by it."

Rev. W. B. Riley, D.D., Minneapolis, speaks of
"Satan deceiving men into the belief of falsehood and
its propaganda by Rutherfordism."

The irksome task of poring through these pub-
lications with their tedious repetitions, inaccuracies
and contradictions, abuse and blasphemies is finished.
My aim has been to expose "Rutherfordism" as the
arch-enemy of organised Christianity. This I claim
in some measure to have done.

May our Church people find herein a weapon of
defence against the "Witnesses out of the Bottomless
Pit."

SOME LAST WORDS

From 1 Tim. 4: 1.

"The Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed
to seducing spirits, doctrines of the dead." "Speaking
lies in hypocrisy."

From 2 Peter 2 : 1-3 (Weymouth translation) :

"But there were false prophets among the people
as there will be teachers of falsehood among you also,
who will cunningly introduce false doctrine, disowning
even the Sovereign Lord Who has redeemed them —
Thristing for your riches they trade upon you with their canting
talk."

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